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childer

/ˈt͡ʃɪldə(ɹ)/

childer is the plural of child.

childer is the plural of childe.

Meaning of child

Noun

child (plural children or (dialectal or archaic) childer)

  1. (broadly) A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).
    • Go easy on him: he is but a child.
    Synonyms:
    kid
    1. (broadly, sometimes) A youth aged 1 to 9 years, whereas neonates are aged 0 to 1 month, infants are aged 1 to 12 months, and adolescents are aged 10 to 20 years.
  2. One's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; one's offspring; a son or daughter.
    • My youngest child is forty-three this year.
    Synonyms:
    descendant
  3. The thirteenth Lenormand card.
  4. (figuratively) A person considered a product of a place or culture, a member of a tribe or culture, regardless of age.
    • the children of Israel
    Synonyms:
    product, son, daughter
  5. (figuratively) Anything derived from or caused by something.
    • Poverty, disease, and despair are the children of war.1991, Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children

See all 12 meanings of child

Meaning of childe

Noun

childe

  1. A child of noble birth.
  2. The cognomen given to the oldest son prior to his taking his father's title.
    • Childe Rowland to the dark tower came.
      His word was still "Fie, foh, and fum,
      I smell the blood of a British man."c. 1607, William Shakespeare, King Lear, act 3, scene 4
  3. (plural childer) A vampire who was turned by another vampire (the childe's sire) in a particular way.
    • She had waded in blood and reveled in death, she had torn her enemies asunder with shadow and given their childer to the flame.1999, Kathleen Ryan, Clan Novel: Ravnos

See all 5 meanings of childe

Noun

childer (plural childers or children)

  1. (Ireland, Northern England) A child.
    • As yo ma be quoit shure where there's agret family a childer, a wumman's loik tubbe varra throng ina monin1839, Abel BYWATER, The Sheffield Dialect. [A Series of Papers in that Dialect, with a Glossary.], page 223
    • Aye has he, Dan'l Drax, so do ee larn him what cums to they as lets off rebels. He be safter nor turnips, nor boiled turnips, so he be. Was blubberin' while back over yon rebel an'a childer !1894, Emily Lawless, Maelcho: A Sixteenth Century Narrative

Forms of childer

pluralchilders
pluralchildren

Origin of childer

From Middle English childer, childre, from Old English ċildra, ċildru.

Phrases with childer

Questions about childer

What does childer mean?
Childer means a child.
What is childer the plural of?
Childer is the plural of child.
What part of speech is childer?
Childer is a noun.
How do you pronounce childer?
Childer is pronounced /ˈt͡ʃɪldə(ɹ)/.
What is the plural of childer?
The plural of childer is childers.

Words near childer in the dictionary

  1. childcentric
  2. childcrowing
  3. childe
  4. Childebert
  5. childed
  6. childer
  7. Childer Thornton
  8. Childeric
  9. Childermas
  10. Childermas-Day
  11. Childermas-Days

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: childer (page history and authors); child (page history and authors); childe (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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